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Memories of Three Happy Years
I, Bill Rodgers was in the United States Air Force stationed at RAF Wethersfield. My wife Phyllis, son Michael and I lived on the Heath Estates, Great Waldingfield from 1962 to 1965. Michael, age 5 attended the Folly Road Primary School in Great Waldingfield. Our daughter Michelle was born in the Sudbury hospital in 1964. We had a wonderful time in Great Waldingfield, with wonderful neighbors. We visit England at least once a year. My wife is from Leicester, England whom I married in 1959.
Two years ago we attended our friend's (old neighgbor) 50th wedding anniversary in Red Lodge, England. We frequently visit with our friends durning our trips to England. ...read more here
A memory of Great Waldingfield contributed by Bill Rodgers
Family
My maiden name is GAME and I've just started researching that side of my family tree, unfortunately due to the fact my dad didn't know too much about his dad's side of the family I had to send away for my Grandad's birth certificate. On receiving the certificate it placed his birth in Brent Eleigh and I was then away. I discovered my family went back to about 1750 in this delightful village, it could go back further but I haven't yet looked.
I visited Brent Eleigh and St Mary's church and what a lovely place tucked away in Suffolk, the church is set in a small area surrounded by trees, it was so peaceful. I found my GG Uncle and ...read more here
A memory of Brent Eleigh contributed by Linda Upson
Society Farm
In 2001 my husband Derek and I visited Assington. We had been researching Derek's family history, and had discovered that his great-great-grandfather John Crisell was the bailiff, in the middle of the 19th century,at Society Farm, Assington.
We were unable to find the farm, but called at a farm shop in the middle of the village, and were told that this had been Society Farm, but had changed its name to Willow Tree Farm. The reason it had been called Society Farm was that Sir John Gurdon, of Assington Hall, had set up a co-operative agricultural experiment on the farm in the 1830s in an effort to help the villagers. Some years later, John Crisell was appointed bailiff, and had lived ...read more here
A memory of Assington contributed by Rosemary Bennett
Stone Street, Boxford
William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - however, we are not certain which town in the UK he became Mayor of - because he moved to London at some stage and married in West Ham, Essex. His father's name was Walter Balaam. Hope someone living in Boxford, Suffolk remembers the Balaam Family.
Annne
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Extracts From Acton & Suffolk books
This 14th-century church
contains one of the oldest
and finest brasses in
England, that of Sir Robert
de Bures (d1302).The 18th-
century south chapel is 20
feet longer than the chancel,
and contains the monument
to the Jennens family,
including the miser William
(d1798). The tower, in ruins
here, was rebuilt in 1923,
and the bells were re-hung
in 1925.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
The church of St Andrew with its
distinctive wooden spire was
restored in 1862. The south aisle
with its square-headed windows
was rebuilt in 1887 by a bequest of
William King. The gable cross has
gone, and clock faces have been
inserted into the tower roundels;
otherwise the view is unchanged today.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
This is the rear view of the Saracen’s Head pub; from c1900 to c1930 it was run by Miss Florence Glass, the third generation
of her family at the pub since c1850. The pub had its own maltings in the range of buildings alongside. The photograph was
taken from the golf course, established in 1907. The A134 Sudbury to Colchester road runs left to right in front of the pub.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
The Newton Green
Sudbury Golf Course was
established in 1907, and it
had its headquarters at the
Saracen’s Head, visible in
the distance. The course ‘...
is over an open common of
52 acres, with nine holes
2,750 yards in length’. The
subscriptions in 1910 were
£1 9s (£1.45) for gentlemen
and 16s (80p) for ladies,
with a daily rate of 1s (5p)
for visitors. The A134 runs
in front of the rows of cottages.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".
The nave of All Saints’ Church is Norman, with later windows of c1300. Only the chancel is now used for worship; the rest of
the building is in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund. The 14th-century wooden porch has been restored and glazed.
On the north wall of the nave is a sequence of paintings of the life of the Virgin. The 15th-century pulpit has an inscription
asking for prayers for Richard Mondi and Leticie his wife. In the chancel is the canopied effigy of Margaret Boteler (d1410).
The rector in 1907 was the Rev Alfred Wren.
An extract from from"Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories".